{"id":2634,"date":"2010-12-01T00:02:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T05:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2015-03-25T08:05:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T14:05:33","slug":"first-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/2634","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>First Song<\/h6>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2634-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wordpress-0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/12\/19123427\/01-First-Song.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wordpress-0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/12\/19123427\/01-First-Song.mp3\">https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wordpress-0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/12\/19123427\/01-First-Song.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/2540\">Andrew Bird<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>With his distinctive fusion of violin, glockenspiel, singing, and whistling, Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird is at the forefront of the indie-folk renaissance.\u00a0 Featured here is \u201cFirst Song,\u201d recorded on Bird\u2019s 2003 album\u00a0<em>Weather Systems<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst Song\u201d is a variation of Galway Kinnell\u2019s poem of the same name, published in his first collection of poems, <em>What a Kingdom It Was <\/em>(1960).\u00a0 \u201cFirst Song,\u201d beginning with the lines, \u201cThen it was dusk in Illinois, the small boy \/ After an afternoon of carting dung \/ Hung on the rail fence,\u201d is an homage to Bird\u2019s home state of Illinois, and even more so to childhood, as \u201cfrom the fields two small \/ Boys came bearing cornstalk violins \/ And they rubbed the cornstalk bows with resins.\u201d\u00a0 The image of companionship is given over, in the poem\u2019s last lines, to the revelatory yet solitary act of music, where \u201cA boy&#8217;s hunched body loved out of a stalk \/ The first song of his happiness, and the song woke \/ His heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We are proud to showcase \u201cFirst Song,\u201d an intersection between one of our favorite poets and one of our favorite musicians.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewbird.net\" target=\"_blank\">www.andrewbird.net<\/a> \u2013 <em>Zachary Greenberg<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Song Andrew Bird With his distinctive fusion of violin, glockenspiel, singing, and whistling, Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird is at the forefront of the indie-folk renaissance.\u00a0 Featured here is \u201cFirst Song,\u201d recorded on Bird\u2019s 2003 album\u00a0Weather Systems. \u201cFirst Song\u201d is a variation of Galway Kinnell\u2019s poem of the same name, published in his first collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[32],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-Gu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11555,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions\/11555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}